Aug 3, 2021
James Tate Hill gradually began losing his sight while still in
high school—and worked hard to hide this fact from the world well
into adulthood. While he employed more practical tactics like
filling his bookshelves with the selections he’d first read on tape
or arriving to dates early so whoever he was meeting would have to
find him, he also discovered the great conversational—and
distracting—possibilities of pop culture. Throw a Tom Cruise,
Prince, Golden Girls, or Breakfast Club reference into a
conversation, and often your acquaintances will stop asking probing
questions that might lead to uncomfortable revelations.
In this conversation, we talk to Hill about the wisdom of Michael
Chabon, why Bea Arthur is the ideal Golden Girl to be your optic
nerve specialist, and how books on tape and Rain Man changed his
life.
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